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🛈 YouTube API: How to generate your Youtube API key

ImprovedTube edited this page Feb 12, 2023 · 6 revisions
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  1. https://console.developers.google.com/apis/dashboard
    Click on 'accept/ continue'
  2. https://console.developers.google.com/apis/library/youtube.googleapis.com
    Click on 'enable' (middle, centered)
    Then this page reloads slowly. (Got to wait)
  3. Click 'select a project' (in the top) > 'my first project'
  4. Click 'activate' (again)
  5. Click 'credentials' (left)
  6. Click 'create credentials > API-Key' to copy your key ('AIza_____________________________________')

⚠️ Currently (only) needed for 2 ImprovedTube features: Video's Age, Channel's Sum of Videos
Hopefully, one day, YouTube will allow us unlimited quota for these simple features
Your own Key may always be required when we will have API Search features, that take a lot of Quota.